Wolf - Italienische Liederbuch
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Label: Champs Hill Records
Cat No: CHRCD054
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 2nd April 2013
Contents
Artists
Joan Rodgers (soprano)Roderick Williams (baritone)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
Works
Italienisches Liederbuch (Italian Songbook)Artists
Joan Rodgers (soprano)Roderick Williams (baritone)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
About
“Each of the three brought sensitivity and experience to the poetry at their command, the end result being a performance of much beauty, feeling, and - most welcomely for this repertoire - joy.” - Opera Britannia
Self-critical of being master of ‘only a small-scale genre’, Hugo Wolf made carefully structured collections of his songs, each a tiny drama in music. It means that his Songbooks are much more than random collections and, as with The Italian Songbook, they represent his attempt to make something more substantial, to tell a bigger story, to create a kind of ‘compressed opera’.
Wolf, who died in 1903 following a period of insanity brought on by syphilis, described The Italian Songbook - his last major work - as “the most original and perfect of my compositions”. Wolf sets his Italian texts, in German translation, with extraordinary wit and perception – in ‘Mein Liebster hat zu Tische mich geladen’ (My sweetheart invited me to dinner), the piano accompaniment reflects the very poor meal, right down to the accents representing the chopping of very stale bread. ‘Mein liebster singt’ (My sweetheart is singing outside the house) incorporates the lover’s serenade in the piano part – a musical sound like a Chopin Mazurka.
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